Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter W? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter D crafts and preschool ideas, then put it together for a full 2 hour preschool lesson.
Welcome to Preschool Co Op! If you are wanting to know how to start an at home preschool co op, go here for beginning instructions. If you are all set, and just want to hop into the Letter W preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!
With each lesson has around 8 sections. I have found that on average, 15 minutes per project is pretty good. . .Although some take less and some take more. it all evens out by the end of the two hours.
Preschool Words Starting With W
Weather, Warning, Wasps, Weapons, Warm, want, waste, witch, wish, wonder, worms, work, wool, woods, water, waves, winter, Wombat, webs,
washing, walk, questions (what why how who when which)
the 8 parts to lesson W:
- Welcome Play (Windchime Craft)
- Introduction to the letter W
- Walrus/Antarctica Lesson And Tusk Craft
- Handwriting D (print)
- Snack Time
- Story Time: Better Not Get Wet Jesse Bear!
- Lesson on Weather and Water Cycles
- Washing Walls Activity
- Warm Weather Water Wars
Supplies to Buy at the Store or Online
- Handwriting helpers for little hands (optional)
- Pens
- Printing Paper and Ink
- Markers/crayons/or colored pencils
- scissors
- Items for Walrus Craft
- Sponges for water games (sometimes I can find a 10 pack at the Dollar Store)
- String, Washers, and Metal Hangers for Windchimes
- Snack ideas: Waffles, Gummy worms, Watermelon
- Mini water cups
- Buy, rent from library, or find online: Book “Better Not Get Wet Jesse Bear!“
Optional Note: Many people have asked for just the coloring handwriting pages that I made for each letter. You can find each of them for FREE on each letter lesson plan. OR you can BUY IT as a digital download (CLICK HERE) or a physical copy (CLICK HERE)
Prep Work
Week before: go over supply list and buy all the online items.
2 days before: Go on a shopping trip to pick up the rest of the needed supplies.
Day Before:
Printables:
- Download and print 1 handwriting W coloring page per child
- Next Download and print 1 set of Letter W Visuals/Water Cycle activity combo
- Download walrus pieces and cut them up, and grab other supplies for the walrus craft.
- Grab supplies for outside water (optional)
- Grab supplies for metal windchimes
Night before set up:
Prepare your home with these suggestions here
If you are using the video suggestions, have youtube set up for those and ready.
welcome Activity
Make a Recycled Windchime.
Take 5 pieces of string, have the kids put a washer on each string, then loop it and tie it onto a Metal Hanger with tape in between so the 5 strings won’t all hit into each other. You can paint the washers if you have time.
Introducing The Letter W
Welcome everyone, do you remember what letter we learned last time? what was it’s sound? Do you remember any of the words that start with V ?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s W!
W makes the sound wuh wuh wuh like in walrus. (sing what is the letter we love)
down up down up, lower case w is the same, just smaller.
What other words start with W?
Lesson On W Animal: Walrus (tusks activity)
Walruses in the waves are pinnipeds that live in the Antarctic continent. let’s look at the map. here is North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and way way down here is Antarctica. Penguins live here, and walruses love to eat penguins!
They have these long teeth called tusks. would it be hard to talk and eat while having long tusks like that? (make Walrus lunch bag puppet)
Handwriting: the letter W
Gather everyone to the table with pens and coloring pencils or crayons, and have them practice writing uppercase and lowercase D with this free printable, and the preschoolers can color the picture afterwards.
Snack beginning with the letter W
Waffles, Gummy worms, Watermelon
Story time with letter book: Better Not Get Wet Jesse Bear!
Lesson on W – Water Cycle
Where does water come from? It comes from rain, where does rain come from? it comes from clouds, where do clouds come from, it comes from the ocean or when it mists (show water getting caught up in a cloud. Where do oceans and rivers, Where do rivers come from, They come from rain. It goes in a circle over and over and over again.
When the sun shines on the rivers and turns the water warm, the water drops become so small that they can actually float up into the air.
When they are high in the sky, they bunch up together to become bigger water drops inside clouds.
But when they get too big and heavy, they fall back down to earth as rain.
Then rain becomes rivers or oceans or puddles.
But when the sun comes up again, and the water becomes warm again, The raindrops become tiny again, and can float up again, into the clouds again, where they join together again, where they get too heavy and fall as rain again!
Here is a song about the itsy bitsy rain drop. (visuals)
helping Hands Learn To W- Wash W- Walls (and Hands)
Now we are going to learn about something really important. Remember last time when we learned how to help our family by vacuuming the stairs? Today we are going to learn how to wipe down walls and wash dishes and our hands with water! (Have rags or I like to use diaper wipes, ready for them to wash baseboards, or a section of wall. If you have time, you can also show them how to wash dishes).
Bonus Time? Warm Weather? Water Wars!
Water Games.
The best thing to do with the letter W. Is if it is warm weather outside, is to have fun in water! Make sure the kids bring swimming clothes and a towel. If you have a kiddie pool, fill it up! If you have a slide, make it a water slide! Trampolines and sprinklers under it go great together! Water guns! Water balloons! Even just big water containers that they can pour into smaller containers is fun for little ones!
But what if you don’t have any of those things? I found the cheapest way to do a water fight, Is with sponges! get to buckets of water, with these cheap sponges, and divide the yard in half, and play water dodge ball with the soaking wet sponges! The kids will be squealing and laughing the whole time!